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Financial Samurai said:

Hi Pauline – don't think I got it? Please resend.

How's everybody's publishing initiatives going for the new year? Good traffic and revenue growth in January hopefully?

I'm definitely going to continue with the 5K published words / week initiative for 2013. Three 1,400-1,500 word posts a week + a shorter post for the weekend sounds like a good balance.

Fight on, and never surrender!

Hi Sam 

I sent it to yakezie at gmail. Where should I resend?

I didn't post my last weeks so here it goes

week 5

13 money resolutions for 2013
#7 make more money 745 
#8 be happy – 582
#9 max it out – 547
#10 stop buying – 1027
friday recap, one less loan and an easy tweet – 872


beef lentils and vegetables soup @if you can read you can cook – 653
reader profile @My personal finance journey – 1612

TOTAL 6038

week 6
13 money resolutions for 2013 
#11 give back – 1073
#12 make a plan – 873
#13 enjoy – 996
friday recap, the city life and a root canal -1141
las mentiras y estafas de Tigo Guatemala – 1399

how to save money on your new house @work save live – 1247

TOTAL 6729

week 7
little house in guatemala week 10/13 -1343
a golden mistake – 355
so the world didn't end. now, what? – 1049
trading currencies as an additional source of income -919
friday recap, two wheels and a swim – 1055

things to know when buying a place and renting out a house @momoneymohouses 759

TOTAL 5477

I haven't focused much on the size of posts lately but see that it becomes easier to write bigger posts. 

My traffic is up about 50% since December with a couple of really great days this past week. 

Hi all!

Is this challenge still going on? I would like to join if it is.

Financial Samurai said:

Hey Marvin,

We aren't doing updates for now, but I've personally continued the 5K a week challenge since the beginning of the year and you are most certainly welcome to participate and report your progress.

We can start again during the summer when vacations and the lazy bug kick in again. The whole point is to work while others are at play and to keep up our motivation!

S

Perfect! I will definitely try this and report my results, thanks Sam!

OneCentAtatime said:

This time, I'll jump in..

Glad to know someone will be participating along side me. Look forward to seeing your results as well.

Post edited 11:16 am – June 1, 2013 by savingadvice

In definite need of this — I'm in again. It probably makes sense to start a new "Summer 2013" edition thread to this challenge for new people that want to start out. I would also suggest to make it for a specific time period like June 1 through August 31 for those who want to try it out, but don't want to commit doing ti forever. 

While the weekly updates may be a bit much for some, I found them extremely useful — it forced me to constantly review what I was doing throughout the week — and when I failed one week, I was motivated to up the production the next. I have a feeling that if reporting is only once a month, a lot more people won't be as active as last time — just my two cents. 

I stopped at the end of the year, but it has certainly been a big help to me. Before the challenge, I was averaging 500 words per post. Now, I'm averaging 700.

I'm doing the challenge for the month of June.  I plan on hiking for a month or two starting in July so I need to get ahead on my posts.